A kids' guide to America's first ladies
By: Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Anna DiVito
Contributors: DiVito, Anna, ill
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780062381071
Subjects: Presidents' spouses; Juvenile literature; Political activity; Biography; Women
Description: Find out what our country s First Ladies thought, did, and advocated for as they moved into the White House.
Notes: 4567 Childrens Plus, Inc.
Table of contents: title: Must I always be first? Martha Washington; title: Do NOT forget the ladies! Abigail Adams; title: Presidents who (technically) had no first ladies and why; title: Bubbly, bold, brave. Dolley Madison; title: Illness, heroic journeys, and Texas. Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Anna Harrison, and two very different Tylers; title: Letitia Tyler and Julia Tyler; title: Ambition versus invisibility. Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce; title: Civil War breaks out. Mary Lincoln; title: And now the "New Woman Era". Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield; title: The modern woman emerges. Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, and Helen Taft; title: The artist and the first woman prez. Ellen Wilson and Edith Wilson; title: Flying first ladies. Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, and Lou Hoover; title: First lady of the world. Eleanor Roosevelt; title: Pink and pretty. Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower; title: One thousand days; title: and beyond. Jacqueline Kennedy; title: A millionaire, a Goodwill ambassador, and one who made a difference. Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford; title: The steel magnolia, the iron butterfly and the enforcer. Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush; title: Developing a thick skin. Hillary Clinton; title: The bookworm. Laura Bush; title: Serious role model. Michelle Obama; title: Glamour to spare. Melania Trump; title: Forty women who shaped America.